Today is Tuesday, January 31 and it is week #2 on the job and an interfaith intern for The Bishops' Conference of Scotland. I have been trying to figure out all the technology of my new computer and social media I am responsible for at my new job here in Glasgow. I am enjoying working on the social media side of things, because I am able to update the twitter and facebook for the Committee of Interreligious dialogue. I have a lot to do today in updating this site and things so I hope you will follow my adventure as I try and blog as much as possible on my journey here as the new intern.

Holyrood Secondary School Holocaust Remembrance Day at St. Mungo's Museum for Religion and Art.

​On Wednesday I attended the Holocaust Memorial Youth Event at St. Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art.

This event was attended three primary Catholic schools in the Glasgow, with students between 11 and 12 years old. It was a day for students to listen as well as interact with each other in discussing and remembering those who experienced the Holocaust. The children heard from a few speakers including Howard Singerman, Umutesi Stewart, and Saskia Tepe.

Howard Singerman (pictured below), told the story of how his mother Susan Singerman survived Auschwitz. Howard read from his mother's words from an interview she had given years before. Howard also read poetry which he had written himself, which was very emotional and moving. The students then had time to ask questions and then come together to act out one of his poems.

​During the day students were also able to discuss their feelings and emotions through writing down their thoughts. In a group I was in, the students viewed paintings and images that had a connection to the Holocaust and wrote their feelings about these images and what they thought these paintings represented. ​

Students also heard about the Bosnian genocide from a retired U.N. officer. Robert McNeil, who worked for the U.N. and traveled to Bosnia to document the genocide in 1995 took up painting as a way to express his own emotions and feelings of what he experienced and saw in Bosnia. Robert shared his story as well as his artwork with the students during the day.

At the end of the day students heard from Umutesi Stewart, and Saskia Tepe. Umutesi is a survivor of the Rwanda genocide and she told the students of how she survived and how most of her family was killed in the genocide. Saskia's told her story of how her mother escaped the Nazi Holocaust.